April 2004 Toddlers - Babies no more!

[Yorkiegirl]

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lucyjones - IKWYM about posting on other threads and getting a slating. once or twice i've been really pissed off with people just attacking things you say and being really rude. it is a reason i don't always post things on other threads. t

HM sorry you got ignored. I think that keeps happening, people post and noone replies. it must happen on the other threads too, I think it's the chat room thing. comments get lost, it's not that people aren't interested.

I like to hear about the new pregnancies for the april babies mums I! am tempted to go and lurk on the ante-natal threads but don't know if that's voyeuristic.

mrs D - you have to have negative sperm samples. DPs samples are still positive.

dot1 - at least you don't have to worry about unplanned 3rd or 4th babies!

You lot are very chatty.
Have a good weekend MrsD!!!

Well last day at work for me. Last day at nursery for dd. Feels very surreal.

Fennel check out nz jobs

dot I agree that it does feel like not very long ago that we were all going through 20wk scans for this lot. Time has just passed sooooo quickly.

chatty, or bored at work. universities are very dead in august.

chuffed thanks i will check it out.

I know Fennel, it's been dead here too. I'm on annual leave as of today, I was supposed to write a research proposal before I went off for a month but I haven't been able to summon the enthusiasm - naughty Doolittle!!

Very intersted in your dh's vc Fennel, have been talking to dh about this. He laughed when I said your dh thought he was a stud because it hadn't worked

Chuffed - we had tears form the staff last week when dd left

Hunkermunker - I don't deliberately ignore anyone, but I have found that with my own posts over the last few months, ma y of them don't get any replies. Or I kill athread dead! I think that is the nature of things these days - the forum has become so busy!!

Anyway, I have so much to do it's scary, so I best get on with it. Ta ra for now!!

MrsD - have a good weekend - that hotel looks lovely (think I've heard of it).

grrr... ds2 woke up at 4.55am today - then howled on and off until one of us could drag ourselves out of bed at 5.50am. WHEN DO THEY START SLEEPING IN???!

Other than that he's perfect, of course! Very proud as he's now started telling us when he's going to do a poo!! Probably gets it right about 75% of the time - you never know, he might be younger than 3.5 when we potty train him!

How does he tell you dot1? ds curled one out on the grass yesterday - dh NOT amused!

TracyK - he very charmingly says "poo" and points to his bottom! A few minutes later, there it is..!! dp and I think he just loves communicating so much, he has to tell us everything that's going on, including his bowel movements!

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dot1 your ds is very advanced .

yorkie I know it's not universally true but both my dds and my dniece in real nappies were out of nappies young. but I know several in cloth nappies who were late, so it's no guarantee. I do think it made a difference to the night nappies - all 3 of mine and dniece were out of night nappies about 2 weeks after daytime, (all just over 2), I think because having got used to no nappies in the day, the wet cloth at night didn't feel right to them so they all just refused to wear night nappies.

am recovering from 19 children to dd2's 4th birthday party yesterday. luckily the weather was great.

Fennel - of course!! Mind you, there's something to be said for leaving them until they're ancient to toilet train them - no potties or accidents to deal with (just emotional trauma and scarring... )

Fennel - I'm off on Wednesday so hoping to see you then!

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yorkie - dd1 was 2y4m (we didn't try earlier, hadn't really thought about it). dd2 was about 1yr11m (having been watching dd1 and potty intently for a year). both did it in a couple of days. as i said have no idea if cloth nappies helped really. dd2 does do most things young - my stressy energetic one.
dd3 has absolutely no idea yet but can say Poo - but she means Pooh bear.

dot1 - looking forward to seeing you on wed!

OK, just one more thing about ds2 (we had a lovely day out in Buxton yesterday and I'm feeling all fuzzy about my lovely boy!) - he's sooooo good at walking now and says "this way!" in the voice we use when we want him to follow us and then says "hand!" for us to hold his hand when he's getting tired..!

Right. That's it - I promise not to do any more daft postings today - just so proud of him at the moment!!

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that sounds horrible yorkiegirl. can she go nappyless in the garden a bit more (ok it's torrential rain here this morning, but might not be where you are).

when did you give up the bf? I gave up 2 or 3 months ago now. have not missed it at all.

YG - ds2's bottom's been like this from time to time - we think related to his eczema, which flares up every now and then when he's tired/stressed - although it's getting better. GP prescribed caneston cream with hydrocortisone, which seems to calm it down when it's bad. Does your dd get eczema, or is she allergic to anything? With ds2 it's cow's milk - or cheese etc. It is horrible when their bottoms get that sore - hope she's on the mend soon.

Have a lie down Fennel after the trials of w/end birthday party - phew!

Hunkermunker - I left this thread a few months back for a couple of weeks because I mentioned that I had been prescribed ADs (not on them any more) and nobody remarked upon it. I now to think of it. Must say I honestly do not remember reading about your poorly ds again - posts get lost when skim reading I think....

Yorkiegirl - my dd used to suffer like this. When she was teething in particular her poo seemed to be like battery acid. Just a couple of minutes contact with her skin and it was red, sore, open and bleeding. I never tried it (wish I knew about it at the time), but metanium cream is supposed to work miracles.

HMC - I'm so sorry, I think I missed that aswell... So sorry. dp's just come off her ADs so I know (from second hand experience) a bit about what it's like. Will read posts more carefully in future - hate to think people are posting stuff that's getting ignored.

Mind you, my short term memory is sooooo bad at the moment I could well have read something and then forgotten it... Had a scary experience at a cashpoint machine yesterday - completely forgot my pin number, which I've never done before. Had to walk up and down the street trying not to panic before it came to me. Am seriously finding I forget people's names, work stuff etc. pretty much instantly unless I make a huge effort to commit stuff to memory - something I've never had a problem with before. Am hoping my brain will rectify itself over the next few years as I start to get more sleep??!

dot1 - please don't apologise. Was months ago

I've done the cashpoint thing, and also forgetting names of people that I know really well! Probably is a tiredness thing.

dp says I'm always asking the same question in conversations - how embarrassing... I think I just can't concentrate as well as I used to - especially when the boys are around - always keeping half an eye and brain on them...

HMC - did you find you were a bit wobbly coming off the ADs? Dp's had slight wobbles, and did the first time around coming off them - just wondered if it's a usual thing. I think she's OK now - but we've both agreed she's not as good off them as when she's on them (if you see what I mean), but she doesn't want to get stuck being on them forever...